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The Power of Sentimental Art: Meaningful Home Decor Ideas
Last year I had a designer friend help me do a little spruce-up of our home. Some day I’ll post some before and after…
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Power in a Family Work Project
The stucco on our house was in desperate need of repair and a paint job. In order to get to those jobs we had…
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how to decorate with pictures
Let’s talk about how to decorate with pictures…at least how I do it! How many thousands of pictures do we have clogging up our…
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changes for Claire too
So, Claire’s room got a little “spruce-up” along with Lucy’s. Claire is it’s third occupant…went from Elle’s room where we tried to copy a…
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the beauty of change
Lucy sometimes takes some cajoling when it comes to switching things up. We have to sweet-talk her like nobody’s business into anything that is…
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gratitude offerings
A few years ago all the adults in my family met up in Bali. Some day I will post my thousands of pictures, it…
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our system for filing away school treasures
We haven’t gotten to our nifty post-school-filing system yet for most kids. But Claire was on-the-job even before school wrapped up. The Beauty of…
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how to build a wall-size bulletin board
I have found in my continual “battle of the clutter” that we need a spot for so many “things” as they infiltrate into our…
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New Years Eve and a new year
I love my in-laws. We had a couple fun gatherings at our house right when we got home…we had missed them so much…
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Utah and HOME
We hung around in Utah for a few days after Christmas in that winter wonderland. We skied. See that little cloud up there on…
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dedicating our house
When I was a kid, I remember a really special day in our house. It was the day we dedicated that house of ours.…
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this is no longer our home:
This is no longer our home. Yet it holds so much of us! We handed over the keys on Monday…well, actually, we turned over…
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the end of an era
Being the record-keeper I am, and in utter respect for this home we adore, I took lots of pictures of our last holiday season…
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Halloween prep
I am so nostalgic. I thought we would be in our new house by this time last year, and here we are with a new…
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Monday Q & A — a new house blog
Would you write a little back story in your new house? You bought it a year ago right? Originally it sounded like you were…
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building love and meaning into the walls
I can’t seem to figure out how to get house stuff in a different tab unless I start a new blog and shift to…
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more thoughts
Oh wow. I must apologize because I obviously struck a chord with my post yesterday. And I must agree wholeheartedly that this is a…
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a pause for thoughts on a crazy day.
My thoughts are paralyzed. I cannot compartmentalize them to help them quiet down so they swirl around like in random abandon and make my…
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house projects
Sometimes getting a few much neglected things done in the midst of chaos gives me such a rush. We have had a LOT of…
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our whiz-bang post-school filing system
Every year after the dust settles from the end-of-the-year-hoopla we do our “filing-of-favorite-things” party. Well, it’s actually not a party. It’s more like a…
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Friday Q & A
I have a question for you; where did you get your name? Were you named for anyone in particular, or was it just a…
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Friday Q & A
I have two little girls right now- a 2 year old and a 7 month old- my husband is working and doing an evening…
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Friday Q & A — home F.A.Q.
I get a bunch of repeat questions about our house, usually just the same ones over and over again. So here are the answers:I…
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we bought a house
On December 23rd, two days before Christmas and right smack-dab in the middle of all the holiday hoopla and ward-splitting craziness, Dave and I…
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Elle’s new room
So we finally finished Elle’s new room too. (Max and Elle switched rooms…I posted about Max’s new room transformation here.) So this used to…
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Max’s room transformation
Last year we initiated the big “room switch” between Max and Elle. They had been begging for years and finally we gave in. So…
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things Dave missed out on while he was in China for ten days:
Dave just returned a few days ago from a long trip to the other side of the world. It’s strange how much more I…
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This is what I see most of the time when I walk in from the garage:
It makes me wonder: Why did I bother to slave away installing those wing-dinger beauty hooks up there? I also wonder why we haven’t…
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my weekend project:
Oh man, I’ve got to get this laundry room under control. Rachel and Amanda, are you coming to my rescue?
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decorating idea
Don’t ask me why I let the pictures on my walls bug me when I was running around frantically trying to get stuff done…
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home feature
This very talented designer featured our home “spruce up project” on her blog today here. Thank you Kirsten! Click here to get directly to…
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my new chair
After about six months of deliberation on which fabric to use, and another few for the actual labor of it, we finally got our…
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summer paint project
One of our summer projects was to paint Grace’s room. She wanted a little change from the yellow walls Lucy had for so long.…
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home sweet home: family room/kitchen
I posted pictures of our kitchen “spruce-up” back here, but the family room and dining nook weren’t done yet. So here they are. Our…
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home sweet home: entry way
So, our entry way started like this:Then we painted the door almost black way back when (this is the only picture I have for…
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home sweet home: dining room
This was our dining room a long time ago:It held no furniture for YEARS (but it was a great dance/gymnastics room). Then we finally…
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home sweet home
To me, making a house into a home is a big deal. Do we need to spend a fortune on it? Nope. I just…
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new kitchen
Well, we are in the midst of a little house “spruce-up” project. By “little” I mean I figured it was time to buy some…
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“walls” questions
I can’t seem to get it together to post Mexico pics. so in the interim I’ve had a bunch of questions from comments and…
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The influence of The Things We Hang on Walls
I believe the things we hang on walls in our homes are important. A few years ago Elle got what she had been begging…
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organization
I have a new life. I am “organized.” Now, don’t go and think that means I have all my meals planned for the week,…
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June run-down
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s half way through July, but I have to write down a few things that happened in June because I’ll forget…
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serious Christmas spirit
I just have to document our neighbor’s Christmas cheer. Each year they put up this HUMONGOUS “Frosty” snowman. At first we were kind of…
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home sweet home
Dave got home this week and we are all pleased as can be about it. We were sitting at the dinner table laughing about…